Description
Bring the aroma of tradition and cranberries into your home with these Hot Cross Buns with Cranberries.
Ingredients
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Hot Cross Bun
- 2 1/4 tsp Active dry yeast
- 3/4 cup Warm milk
- 1/4 cup Granulated white sugar
- 3 1/4 cup All purpose flour
- 1/2 tsp Ground Cinnamon
- 1/2 tsp Ground allspice
- 1/4 tsp Ground cloves
- 1/4 tsp Ground nutmeg
- 1 tsp Salt
- 4 Tbsp. Unsalted butter
- 2 Eggs
- 1/2 cup Raisins
- 2 tsp Grated orange zest
- 1/2 cup Dried Cranberries
Orange Icing
- 1 cup icing sugar
- 3 Tbsp. orange juice
Instructions
- In a bowl stir together 1/4 cup of the warmed milk and 1 tsp of sugar.
- Sprinkle the yeast over the milk and let it sit for 10–15 mins.
- In a bowl of an electric mixer, whisk together 3 cups of the flour, granulated sugar, salt, cinnamon, allspice, cloves, and nutmeg.
- Create a well in the flour and create the foamy yeast, softened butter, eggs and remaining milk.
- Use the paddle attachment of your stand mixer.
- Mix the ingredients until well incorporated.
- The mixture should be quite sticky.
- Add in the raisins, cranberries and the orange zest.
- Switch to the dough hook attachment and start to knead in low speed.
- Slowly sprinkle in additional flour, a tablespoon at a time, kneading to incorporate after each addition, until the flour is still slightly tacky, but is no longer completely sticking to your fingers when you work with it.
- Total kneading time should be about 7 mins.
- Form a ball of dough in the bowl and cover with plastic wrap. Let sit, covered, at room temperature for 2 hours, until the dough has doubled in size.
- Punch dough down to release the air.
- Portion dough into 16 equal pieces.
- Take the individual pieces and form them into mounds, placing them 1 1/2 apart on a greased baking sheet, cover with plastic wrap.
- Let the dough mounds sit at room temperature to rise again, until the mounds have doubled in size, about 40 mins.
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees F
- Place the buns in the middle rack of the oven and bake for 10–12 minutes, until they are lightly browned.
- Remove from oven and let cool on the pan for a few minutes, then transfer the buns to a wire rack to cool.
- Whisk the icing ingredients together, then brush on warm rolls.
Notes
Said mentioned that she omitted the cross as she knew it would fail, but you can add it.
Created, Prepared, tried, and tested by Sandy from SA Tasty Recipes – Saffas Daily Recipes
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1
- Calories: 207
- Sugar: 18.1 g
- Sodium: 161.4 mg
- Fat: 3.9 g
- Saturated Fat: 2.1 g
- Trans Fat: 0 g
- Carbohydrates: 39.6 g
- Fiber: 1.4 g
- Protein: 4.3 g
- Cholesterol: 31.1 mg
